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ACAP – some reviews
Unfortunately I haven’t found the time to have a detailed look at the 1.0 versions of the ACAP spec and do a technical review as promised last year. But others have done it. And i have to say that i largely agree with them and might have bin harsher. See below for my favourite quotes […]
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links for 2008-01-18
Resolver Systems Ltd (tags: software winfows python spreadsheet resolver) Welcome to the Place Lab homepage The Place Lab approach is to allow devices like notebooks, PDAs and cell phones to locate themselves by listening for radio beacons such as 802.11 access points, GSM cell phone towers, and fixed Bluetooth devices t (tags: software opensource geolocation […]
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Skyhook Wireless, Wardriving, WiGLE and Newspapers
One of the most interesting facts of the Stevenote was the geolocation cooperation with Skyhook Wireless. Apple uses them in addition to Google in order to complement Google’s cell tower based triangulation with a Wi-Fi based triangulation. Wi-Fi based position is not new and e.g. used by Microsoft in VirtualEarth (AFAIR because of ActiveX only […]